On 12-05-2015 03:54, Bruce Kellett wrote:
As stated above, counterfactual correctness is not required to
reproduce just the one original conscious moment.
This is where I disagree from the others in this discussion group.
Imagine someone having some definite experience. Given the complexity of
the human brain, there are then an astronomically large number of
physically distinct states his brain could be in. Given what this person
experiences and assuming the validity of the MWI, it would be
unreasonable to assume that this person should picture himself to be
located on a single MWI branch.
Taking that into account a simple resolution of the MGA is to assume
that a single conscious experience should be defined as an operator that
defines that conscious experience as a computation which is then defined
as a mapping from a set of initial states to final states of the form:
O = sum_inputs i1,i2,i3,...,in of |j1,j2,j3,...,jn><i1,i2,i3,..,in|
One cannot debunk this by saying that you could in principle observe
that some person is in some precisely defined state. You can never make
such an observation because the information would not fit in your brain.
Only a hypothetical super observer could make such an observation, but
that observer would exist in a far narrower set of MWI branches. So,
in his World we don't exist.
Saibal
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